Author - Niko McCarty

Today, biology is easier than ever to observe but still incredibly difficult to understand. Powerful advancements in DNA sequencing and synthesis have inched scientists ever forward in their quest to “master” biology...

Spiders, mushrooms and algae may help build the next Hilfiger, Levi and Chanel. Organisms are the great designers of our planet, producing materials in distinct patterns to serve a specific function. Bees produce...

The idea of leveraging an organism’s intrinsic properties for medical benefits has existed for millennia. But in the last few years, synthetic biologists have revolutionized the idea of living medicines —...

How the Internet of Things could help synthetic biology in its quest towards standardization. Every engineering discipline relies on repeatable measurements and consistent ways to catalog and convey information. It is...

Synthetic biology is a scientific discipline that aims to rationally engineer living organisms, typically with genetic engineering approaches (1). In 1961, Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod first proposed that genetic...

Synthetic biology has, for the last fifteen years, almost completely dominated science headlines. The field is at the forefront of the DNA-editing and CRISPR revolutions, the rapid drops in DNA sequencing costs and even...

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